Heart Bombs Baking Soda Science Set Up and Supplies

Baking Soda

Water

Dish Soap

Vinegar

Acrylic Hearts {craft or dollar store items}

Containers

To make heart bombs, combine your baking soda with water. You want to add a small amount of water at a time until you have a sort of dough that you can smooth together and will hold. It should not be soupy. Pack the mixture around your acrylic hearts. Make as many as you want and pop the heart bombs the fridge for a little while to harden. You can use “as is” too!

For your container, add a bit of warm water {1/3} and a few drops of dish detergent and then fill with vinegar {2/3}. We colored our vinegar red as well. Turn it into a little fine motor fun by adding tongs! Drop your heart bombs into the container and see what happens. The tongs are also quite handy for fishing out the hearts!

Although the baking soda and vinegar reaction is plenty fun on its own, adding a some dish soap keeps the bubbling action going longer. Plus you can end up with a mountain of bubbles. We also enjoyed dropping our heart bombs onto the tray and using an eye dropper to squirt vinegar directly on them! Make sure to see our Frozen Fizzing Snowmen which are similar and so cool!

Simple, Cool Valentines’s Day Science

Baking Soda, Fizzing, Heart Bombs!

Make sure to check out all our neat Valentine’s Day Learning ideas {click on photos}